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 ATLAS
C OE L E S T I S.

By the late Reverend

Mr. JO H N FLAMSTEED,
Regius Professor of ASTRONOMY at Greenwich.

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LONDON, Printed in the Year M.DCCXXIX.

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 To His Moft Sacred Majesty

GEORGE II.

King of Great Britain, France,

and Ireland, &c.

THIS
ATLAS COELESTIS,
O F

The late Reverend Mr. f LA M S t E E D,

Regius Profeflbr of ASTRONOMY,
A T
The Royal OBSERVATORY at Greenwich,

Is, with the greateft Submiflion, Dedicated,

By His Majefty s moft Humble,

Moft Dutiful, and moft Obedient

Subjefls and Servants,

Margaret Flamsteed,
James Hodgson.
 O render the indefatigable Labours of Mr. Flam-
steed as ufeful and beneficial to Mankind as may
'be, as well as to complete the Work already
publinYd, has been judgd very neceflary by
it

'(his Executors to carry on, and perfect the fol-

lowing Sheets, which contain all the Conflellations
.yifible in our Hemifphere, wherein the ancient Fi-
gures themfelves are refior'd, and the Stars laid
down in their proper Places, with the greateft Exatlnefs from his
laft correcled Catalogue.
The Motives that indued Mr. Flamsteed to fet about this Work,
the Progrcfs that he made in it during his Life-time, and the Me-
thods that he made ufe of for conflruBing the Charts, which render
them far more ufeful than any yet extant, will beft appear by the
Account that he himfelf has left behind him ; wherein he tells us,
That having about the Year 1700 compleated the Calculation of the
Places of the Fixed Stars, he fet himfelf to form Maps of the Con-
flellations, in which he found it neceflary wholly to depart fromS^r,
of whom Hevelius himfelf complaind, but without mentioning any
Particulars ; and this led him into zftritl Enquiry to find out who
thokJftronoj/iers were that firft conftruftedM^of the Conflellations,
and efpecially by whom the Stars were reduced into thofe Forms
into which they are difpofed in Ptolow/s Catalogue, (of which there
is no Account given that can be relied on) for from what Ptolomy
himfelf relates in the 4th Chapter of his 7th Book of his Alma-
gefl, it is evident, that thofe Images or Figures were older
than
Hipparchusj Time, where he fays, ' That we employ not the fame
'
Figures of the Conftellations that thofe before us did, as neither
'
did they of thofe before them, but frequently make Ufe of others
'
that more truly reprefent the Forms for which they are drawn ;
*
for Inftance, thofe Stars which Hipparchus places on the Virgins
A ' '
Shoulder,
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:

CO from the
Shoulder, wq place on her Side, becaufe their Diftances
for the Diftance from the Head to
the

Heid appear too great

thereby making thofe Stars
<
Shoulder in his Sign of Virgo; and
will be agreeable and proper, which
to be on the Sides, the Figure
'

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it would not, if thofe
Stars were placed upon the Shoulders.

The Chaldean Obfcrvations were made in the 82 Year

x<*acW $
correfponding with the 519* Year
of Nabonaffar, or 229 Years be-
is made of the Stars in the Southern
fore Chrifl, wherein mention
in the Front of the
Shoulder of the Virgin, or the Northermofl
that Star, which Jppulfe was
Scorpion, in an Appulfe of Mars to
or 271 Years before
Obferved in the 476th Year of Nobonaffar,
'

Tymocharis and Aristii.lus anciehter than the Chat-

are ftill

before Chrift, and obferved the

deans who lived about 300 Years
Jppulfcs of the Moon to the Fixed Stars
about 295 Years before
Chrift,or Year of the World 3709, and again in the 283d Year
before Chrift, or
which Time it is
Year of the World 3721, at

plain from what Ptolomy fays, that the

Antients had Figures or Maps
of the Conftelldtlons, with the Stars Places defigned on them.
A rat us the Poet, (who wrote of the Rifing and Setting of the
Stars, flouriflVd about the 125th Olympiad,
or about 276 Years be-
fore Chrift) was, if not Cotemporary, yet
but little later than Ty-
mocharis and Arijlillus, and certainly older than the Chaldean Ob-
fervers of the Appulfes From whofe Poem 'tis connrm'd, that the
:

Grekks had Figures of the Conftellations ; but from whom they

had derived them, or how they came by them, is no where to be
learnt.
From the aforemention'd Place in Ptolomy evident, that
it is by
thofe before him he meant Hipparchus and his Followers, and by
thofe Elder than the Chaldean or Greek Aftronomers who flourimed
before Hipparchuss Time, he meant thofe Aftronomers who firft
of all made Obfcrvations of the Appulfes of the Planets to the
Fixed Stars; from the Tranflation of which we have an Account
of an Obfervation in the Northermoft Star in the Front of Scorpio,
made in the 476th Year ofNabonaJfcr, or 276 Years before Chrift;
and likewife of another in the Southermoft Shoulder of Virgo,
made in the 519th Year of Nabonaffer, or 229 Years before Chrift
But Tymocharis and Ariftillus, whofe Obfervations are alfo tranf-
mitted to us by Ptolomy, mention Stars of many other Conftella-
tions ; whereby it is evident, That they had formed Figures of them
in their Time, about Three hundred Years before our Saviour
\rhieh is all the Account we have from Ptolomy.
YromPtolomfs Time to Ours the Names that he made Ufe of, have
.

been continued by the Ingenious and Learned Men of all Nations

the Arabians always ufed his Forms and Names of the Conftel-
lations the old Latin Catalogues of the Fixed Stars ufe the fame
;
;

Coper-
 ( 3 )
Copernicus'.? Catalogue (the firft we have in
good Latin) and
l\-CHo-BRAHE.f ufe the fame ; So do the Catalogues
publinYd in
the German, Italian, Spanijl?, Portuguese, French
and Englifh Lan-
guages All the Obfervations of the Ancients and
:
Moderns make
life of Ptolomy s Forms of the Conftellations and Names of the
Stars
io that there is a Neceffity of adhering to them,
that we may not ren-
der the old Obfervations unintelligible, by altering
or departing5
from them.
Tycho Brahe dy'd in the Year 1601, two Years after Bayer pub-
lifti'd his Uranomctria, wherein he gives us Maps of all the Con-
ftellations ; His Figures are tolerable, and the
Stars rightly Laid
down according to their Places in Tycbos Catalogue, and many other
[mail Stars are added which it hath not :Thefe, 'tis probable, he
inferted upon his own hare View, by comparing them with the Fixed
Stars inferted in his Maps from Tycbos Catalogue, whofe Nomcn-
clatura is the fame ; but having drawn all his Human Figures, ex-
cept Bootes, Andromeda, and Virgo, with their Backs towards us,
thofe Stars, which all before him place in the Right Shoulders,
Sides, Hands, Legs or Feet, fall in the Left, and the contrary in
his Figures ; with which therefore whofoever goes about to exa-
mine the anticnt Obfervations, or the Catalogues of the Fixed
Stars, printed or publinYd in any Language, wilf find himfelf much
perplexed, if he be not before-hand appriz'd of this.
The Reafon probably of Bayers Fault was, that finding the Word
ov mtu and c* (dcL^im often in Ptolomy s Catalogue, and confulting
the Greek Lexicons for the Senfe of them, he found conftantly
mT& rendcrd by Dorfitm, and ,u.2ct<p%im by Interfcapilium, and there-
fore concluded, that Interfcapilium was the Space betwixt the Shoul-
der-Blades on the Back ;and wherever he met with either of thefe
Words in the Defcription of any Conftellation, except Virgo and
Andromeda, he drew it with the Back towards us, whereby he makes
all thofe Stars that Ptolomy, (and the Antients, and all fince them
to himfelf) placed in Right Shoulders, Arms, Sides, Legs, and
Feet, &c. of their Forms or Figures to ftand on their Left,
whereby he renders the oldeft Obfervations Falfc or Nonfenfe.
To remedy this Fault, when he Mentions any eminent Fixed
Star to be in dcxtro Humcro, or dextra Tibia, he adds alias in Si-
niftra, &c. which indeed feems to excufe the Fault, but being done
but feldom, will perplex thofe that make Ufe of his Maps, and
render them ufelefs.
Had Bayer but drawn the Map of Sagittary, or any other of the
Human Forms, fo that the Stars placed in the Right Hands, Shoul-
ders, Sides and Feet of Ptolomy 's Catalogue might ftand on the
fame in his Figures, he would have feen that they would all have
their Faces towards us, and thereby would have Learn'd, that in
Ptolomy'?, Greek, the >ir& fignifies the Crates Corporis, or the Ribs,
and
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and that the iiAaQibw, the Space betwixt the Shoulders, not only on
the Back, but alfo on the Fore Part of the Body, or Upper Part of
the Breaft, and there would then have been no Incongruity between
His Figures, and the Ancients Defcriptions ; for not only Ptolomy
but Homer himfelf ufes thofe Words in a more comprehenfive
Senfe than the Lexicons commonly allow.
Neverthelefs, in moft of the Maps of the Fixed Stars that have
been Engraved fince thofe of Bayer, the Forms are taken from him,
and have the fame Faults with his.
The Learned William Skikard, Profeffor of the Oriental Lan-
guages and the Mathematicks at Tubing in Germany, Publilhed his
Astroscopium at Nordlingen in the Year 1655, where, in Page
44, he takes Notice of this Fault of Bayers, and of the Confufion
it caufes in the Denomination of the Stars, and tells us, That
others before him have complained, that very often they made
thofe Stars in the Right Sides, Shoulders, or Hands of his Figures,
which all Ptolomy s Defcriptions placed on the contrary ; fo that
we are not the firft nor only Perfons that have taken Notice of
thefe Faults of Bayers Maps, but others, and thofe Perfons of
great Reputation, have done it long before.
Mr. Skikard takes Notice in the Beginning of his little Treatife,
that Globes are unfit for reprefenting the Conftellations of the Hea-
vens by Figures parted on them ; and that whofoever would Learn
the Stars by comparing the Figures on them with the Heavens,
muft find themfelves very much perplexed,- becaufe thofe Repre-
fentations are fuppofed to be made on the Outfide of the Globe, or
to the Eye placed beyond it, whereas we view the Stars difpofed
in the Conftellations from our Earth as the Center of a Concave
Sphere wherein they are fixed, and therefore their Appearances to
us muft be the Reverfe of what appears on the Convex of the
Globe, fo that Globes are no Ways proper to reprefent the Hea-
vens upon.
He farther takes Notice in Page 43, that Planifphcrcs or Stereo-
graphical Projections are not convenient, becaufe in them the De-
grees near the Middle or Center are much lefs than the Degrees
near the Limb or Outfides of the Projection, and thereby the Fi-
gures therein reprefented will be diftorted.
To remedy which Inconveniency, Mr. Flamsteed thought no-
thing fo neceffary as a new Method of Projection, wherein all the
Parallels of Declination might be equidiftant ftreight Lines, and
the Degrees of Longitude in every Parallel might be every where
Proportional to the Sines of their Diftances from the next Pole,
and equal in the fame to one another.
The Maps indeed thus defcribed, will not anfwer to any of the
ufual Orthographical, or Stereographical Projections of the Sphere,
in which is fuppofed a fixed Pofition of the Eye, whereas in thefe
there
 there is
(n
no fuch Suppofition; but neverthelefs
they are derived from
he Globe as the others are
and that much more propIlyK
tl
P
T a nS gCnera!y made ufe of in Ma s of the
particular r ,
Countries,
P
above which, and the forementioned
Earth or
Pro-
jedions of the Sphere, This will have
peculiar Advantages
And for the better Undemanding of which, conceive
the Globe
or Sphere to be compaffed about with
an infinite Number of
equally fine Tbnds, all exactly parallel to
the Equator
Cl cle ufua 1 drawn u
ri, P / / [ L '
y P n the Globe, as the Equator,
the Echptick the Meridians
7
&c. be fuppofed drawn and divided
and let the Cancellations alfo be Formed
upon them, and the
Stars laid down in their proper Places.
Let alfo the Meridian palling through the
Middle of any Con-
ftellation be conceived drawn on the
Globe, and covered with a fine
Lhrid, with as many of the adjacent Circles as
you think convenient
Conceive the Tbnds on which the Conftellation
is Painted to be
cut oft from the Surface of the Globe, and that
which paffes thro' the
Middle, being extended ftreight on the Middle of
fome Paper, or
perfectly plain Superficies, let the
Reft be placed on it at Right
Angles to the Middle Meridian, but reverted, or fo as
thofe Parts
ot them which ftood to the Right Hand of
it on the Globe may
Hand to the Left on the faid Plane, and the Contrary.
So will you have the Piaure of the Conftellation
Projeaed
upon it, in which the Parallels of Declination will be
ftrci^bt
Lines, and their Diftances exaffiy equal, the fame as
they are on the
Globe, as will alfo the Diftances and Differences of
the Right Afcen-
Jions of any two Stars that are equally diftant from the Pole,
or have the fame Declination from the Equator.
But the Meridians will become Compound Curves of the fame
Nature, and having the fame. Properties with that which Dr. Wallis
in his Treatife de Cycloide calls Curva Sinuum.
The Circles of Longitude, and Parallels of Latitude may be
inferibed on the fame Chart, by the Help of fuch Tables as
(hew the Declination and Right Afcenfion correfponding to every
Degree of Longitude with every Degree of Latitude; for thereby
Points may be found on the Paper or Chart, through which every
Circle of Longitude or Parallel of Latitude will pafs, thro' which
Points, if Lines be Traced with an even Hand, they will repre-
fent the Circles or Parallels required.
Having therefore refolved upon this as a proper Method of
Projeaion, and being no ways liable to the Inconveniences that
attended the aforemention'd ones, He began to form his Maps
of the Conftellations, in which, as his Catalogue contain'd twice as
many Bayers or Heveliuss, he thought it requifite to al-
Stars as
low four Tenths of an Inch for each Degree, and determine!
to make the Figures of the Stars lefs than Bayer's, in order to
B gain
 CO to be prepared,
gain more Room, and then caufed the Charts
proper Places ; after which
and the Stars laid down in their _

according to the Delcnptions

the Images were drawn on them
given in Ptolomfs Catalogue, (which
have been ufed by all after
and {polled
him without Variation, 'till Bayer formed them anew,
them) that thereby the ancient Figures of the Conftellations,
that
be re-
were made ufe of by Ptolomy and his Predecefors, might
ftored, and no longer fpoiled by Innovators.
The Maps therefore being thus prepared, and all drawn upon
large Imperial Paper, admit of many more Stars than belong
to
that particular Conftellation for which the particular Map is
drawn. In thofe of the Zodiack, befides the Stars of that Sign for
which the Map was defignd, not only the principal Stars of the
two contiguous Signs are laid down, but all the Stars in the Nor-
thern and Southern Conftellations that come within the Compafs
of the Map are inferted.
But in the Maps of thofe Conftellations that are without the Li-
mits of the Zodiack, not any one Star is omitted that can be com-
prehended within it.
As there was no Neceffity for drawing diftinct Maps for every
particular Conftellation as well as for the Signs of the Zodi-
ack, as Bayer and Hevelius have done ; and fince the Size of the
Paper would allow of it, he judged it more convenient fo to con-
trive them, that two or more of the Conftellations might be com-
priz'd in one Map, which would considerably diminifh their Num-
ber, without any Difadvantage to the Conftellations themfelves,
and by this Means fome of the fmaller Ones, as Lyra, Sa-
gitta, Lacerta, are found entire in two or three feveral Maps.
But Hydra, which extends to above 80 Degrees of Right Afcen-
fion, and being likewife very near the Equator where the Degrees
are wideft, could not be comprehended within one fingle Sheet, and
as it would have been very inconvenient to have alter'd the Scale
for this fingle Conftellation, it was much better to enlarge it to
another Half Sheet, fo that befides the Conftellations of Crater,
and Corvus, it contains that of Sextans entire, and moft of the
Stars in Virgo : But tho' Ursa Major contains more than 80 De-
grees of Right Afcenfion, yet by being near the North Pole, the
Degrees are fo much contracted that the whole ConfteHation is
compriz'd within one fingle Map.
The fame Projection and Scale is ufed in all except the Polar
Maps, where it would not be fo very convenient, and therefore
the common Stereographick Projection on the Plane of the Equa-
tor was thought moft proper and commodious, and liable to the
leaft Diftortion, by chufing fuch a Scale of Semi-Tangents that
the Degrees of Polar Diftance would be very near equal with thofe
in the other Maps, decreafing a little near the Pole, and increasing
towards
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b thG C^" ter r ^ le bdn
fodifPfed that the four Con*
rt-Hl^Ho \
foliations Ursa
T
Minor Draco, Cepheus, andC A ssioPEA,
be conveniently contained within a Map of might
the fame Form and Size

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leaft diftorted, but
*W
n g in their right Poftures, and not
c
as well as if they
in the
had been drawn in fingleand
leparate Maps. s
FortheforementiohdReafonthefameKindofProjeaion was made
XJle of in the two Hem/fpheres, where
the Ardick and Antaraick
Poles are made the Centers of theProjeaion, and
thefe, as well as the
other Maps, were prepared anew, and the Stars
laid down by Mr
Abraham jiharp, who having Leifure and Time upon his
Hands'
readily offer d himfelf for this Service.
And fince the Maps are all drawn by one particular Scale, it
will not be difficult, even by Infpeftion, to
pronounce nearly the
mutual Distances of the Fixed Stars themfelves, and to judge
of
the Comparative Magnitudes even of the Conftellations, which
can-
not be done by thofe which are form'd by different Scales and as ;
the Parallels of Declination are ftreight Lines equidiftant
and
parallel to each other, and to the Equator, and drawn to
every
Jingle Degree of Declination or Diftance from the Pole, each De-
gree being equal to four Tenths of an Inch, the Decimation of
every Star may be very nearly determin'd by InfpeBwn but if the ;

Diftance of any one of their Centers from the neareft Parallel of

Declination be applied to the graduated Meridians on each Side of
the Chart, the Quantity of its Declination may be much more ex-
a31y determin'd.
And again, as the Meridians themfelves are drawn to every fifth
Degree of Right Afcenfion the Right Afcenfion itfelf, of any Star
;

may be had by InfpeBion only, and as the Lengths of the feveral

Parallels of Declination are as the Circumferences of the feveral
Parallels they reprefent on the Globe itfelf, and thefe being as their
refpeaive Diameters, which are as the Sines of the refpective Di-
ftances from the Pole ; if the Breadth of one or more Degrees
upon the Equator be made equal to the Sine of 90 Degrees upon
a Seaor, the Sine of a Degree anfwering to its Diftance from the
Pole, or the Complement of its Declination, which is expreffed
in every Map by the Divifions on each Side of the Maps, will
give the Length of one or the like Number of Degrees in that
Parallel, whence the Right Afcenfion of any Star may be more
exaaiy determin'd.
And again, as the Ecliptick itfelf is drawn in every Chart
through which it being divided into fingle Degrees, as
paries,
alfo the Circles of Longitude, and Parallels of Latitude to every
fifth Degree, the Latitudes and Longitudes of each particular Star
may be had by Infpeaion.

And
 C 8)
And aseach of thefe Charts are Tangent Planes to that Point of
the Globe which correfponds with the Center, or Middle Point of
the Chart, if held up, to that it may anfwer to its correfpondent
Part in the Heavens, each particular Star will thereby correfpond
with the Star it reprefents in the Heavens, whence People, who are
not well verfed in the Knowledge of the Stars, will foon be enabled
to know them, which is not fo eafily to be attained by the Coe-
leftial Maps hitherto published, which being made to reprefent the
Convex Side of the Heavens, the Spectator muft either fuppofe
himfelf placed above the Stars, or elfe carry his Imagination fo far
as to conceive the Stars which are placed on the Right Side of the
Figure of thofe Maps to be viewed on the Left Side in the Hea-
vens, and likewife the Stars that are on the Left Side in thofe Maps,
to be viewed on the Right Side in the Heavens, and that the Pla-
nets or Stars which feem to move from Eaft to Weft, or from the
Left to the Right by their Diurnal Motion, when they are placed
right before him muft move upon thofe Maps on the Contrary,
that is, from Weft to Eaft, or from the Right to the Left : And as'
the Planets themfelves in their Revolutions thro' their Orbs appear
to move from Weft to Eaft, or from the Right to the Left, muft
here be traced on the Contrary, from Eaft to Weft, or from the
Left to the Right, a Thing that to Perfons not very well flailed in
thefe Matters, will create very often fome Difficulty.
And as the Ecliptick, and its feveral Parallels of Latitude are all
drawn by the fame Scale, it contributes very much to the readier Dif-
covering of what Stars, the Moon, or any of the Planets will Pafs ly,
or Cover in any of their Revolutions through their Orbs, and the
Parallels of Declination being all drawn as before, it may be
dis-
covered at Sight what Stars will Tranfit the Meridian at, or near the
fame Altitude with the Moon, or any other Planet or fixed Star and ;

in as much as in this Cafe they are all fubjed to the fame Refrakion,
and the Errors of the Inftrument made ufe of (if any there be)
being alike in all, does not a little Contribute to the readier finding
the Declination of any unknown Star, or the Moon, or any
other
Planet at that Time, by getting rid of fome Uncertainties
that
otherwife Obfervations of this Kind would be liable to.
And that the Reader may be the better enabled to know the
Names of the feveral Stars, and diftinguifli them one from the
other, there are Letters annexed to the principal Stars
in each
Map, which refer to the Catalogue printed in the third Volume
of
the Hiftona Cceleftis, where, in the proper Conftellations,
he will
find againft the Referential Letters, the Name,
Right Afcenfion
Declination, Latitude, Longitude, as well as Magnitude
of each mr- *
ticular Star.

As
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As Works of thisNature meet with but Very few Encouragers*
land as a great Part of the Hiftoria Coeleflis, as well as this Book*
have been carried on at thtfok Expence of the Executors, they were
unwilling to proceed in one 'till the other was publifhed, which,
together with the Difficulties and Delays that ufually attend Per-
formances of this Kind has been the Reafon why it has not ap-
peared fooner abroad ; but as neither Pains nor Expence have been
wanting to render it as compleat as poflible, there is Reafon to
hope that it will meet with a fuitable Reception from the gene-
rous, candid, and unprejudic'd Part of Mankind.
And laftly, as the principal View of the Royal Founder of the
Obfervatory was to obtain a good Catalogue of the fixed Stars, fo it
muft be juftly acknowledged that Mr. Flamsteed has fully ac-
complished that great End, having left behind him one of the
largeft and compleateft Catalogues that ever
the World was en-
containing al-
riched with, from which thefe Charts are deduced,
to the
moft double the Number of the Stars in that of Hevehuss,
Honour of the Britijb Nation, and the lafting Reputaionof the Au-
thor ; a Work that will render his Name famous
to the lateft Pofte-
(hall be no more.
rity, and perpetuate his Memory 'till Time
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